St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-15
THEY KNoCNED HIM OUT.

The Commissioner Of Patents
Forced to Resign Because of office.
Seekers.
Special TO the Globe.
WASHINGTON. March 14.-CommsSioner
Montgomery, of the patent Office, is willing
10 remain until the 1st OF May if a suitable
man to ill the office of commissioner of
patents should not be found before then,
but he is anxious to get away to his home
in Michigan as soon after the 1St of April
as it will suit the convenience of the presi-
dent To relieve him. No man was ever
more thoroughly tired of public Office than
two years tenure has made Mr.. Mont
gomery. and the bane of his existence has
been the otlice-seeker.
MANY I time" said he, 1.-THE only thing that
Kept me from kicking man, q .congre man
maybe, ont OF my office was that it was pub
lie Office and did not belong to me. Day after
uay ! have sat in the public Office and been
subjected 10 the insoience and abuse of OIL
cial office seekers. which | would not have
suffered for Que single moment had l been in
my own law office. Officially, have had to
be pleasant and polite to men who deserved
TO be kicked out of doors. l don't think that
there is another Office in the government
which suffers One-Quarter
THE ANNOYANCE
imposed upon the patent office. My prede-
ceSSor. Ben Buuerworth, the sweeteSt-tem-
pered man imaginable, with spirits NATURAL,
inclined to be as bright and as free as sun
beams, tells me that if he had remained any
longer in the Office he would have had no
temper left, and probably no hair. He says
he believes he would have become either a
victim OF chronic melauchOla or he would
have been driven stark mad ! believe he
does not eXaggerate it. | firmly believe a
continuance III this Office would produce
some such result in me. Naturally, / am not
such an i!l-tempered person myself but l
feel that the constant nag-nag-nagging that
! have had TO stand during my two years of
Office has taken a good deal OF the temper
out of me. Women, women" continued Mr..
Montgomery. 1.-The women are the cause of
it. When l see a well-known congressman
enter my Office with more thar usual intel rest
and perseverance, and urgency stamped on
his cOuntenauce and in his manner, l know
too well what it means. In nine cases out of
ten l can tell when the visitor is after posi-
ton for woman.
Mr.. Montgomery will be counsel for the
Detroit, Lansing u Northern railroad, and
as such will receive a regular salary much
larger than that of the commissioner of
patents. Outside the business of that rail-
road he is sure to have a profitable practice.
because for years he has been one nj the
eadlng lawyers in his part of the state.
THE NEXT NOMINEE.
Opinions Regarding the Repub-
lican who is 10 BE Whipped in
1883.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, March a. - Assistant
Postmaster General HaZen has the reputa-
ton of being one Of the stauncheSt adher-
ents of Blaine in the Keystone state. where
the former belongs, but within short time
he has experienced decided change of
heart. Talking on the subject recently to
your correspondent, Gen. Hazen said:
MThe conviction is being forced upon us in
Pennsylvania that we will have to select
some other standard bearer IN 1883 than the
Plu med Knight From the best information
obtainable it looks as though Senator Sher-
man, of Ohio, is the coming man, and partic-
uurly on account of his strength in New
York, which is the key TO the presidential Sit
uation Besides, 1t is a historical fact that a
defeated candidate for the presidency in the
last half century has not been renominated by
his party, and 10 one appreciates this more
than Mr.. Blaine. Every day Sherman is in
creasing in popularity, and when the noml-
mating convention meets i'll 1888 it need not
surprise any one to see him the unanimous
choice of the Republican delegates.
Representative Meilillen. of Maine. on the
other hand, does not think the Ohio states
man is going to have such plain sailing be-
fore the convention. According to his idea,
Sherman can't get the nomination. If Mr..
Blaine goes before the convention he will
be nominated by such vote as will mean
something.
Blaine ne adds. can have it if he wants It,
Should he be out of the way, | would say that
Allison would be the next man. / think
Allison will be nominated if Blaine is not. He
would make good run. He is all right on
finance There is 10 trouble about that